Importance of Lunch : And Other Real-Life Adventures in Good Eating, The
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Book
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ISBN 10
067931072X
ISBN 13
9780679310723
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
375
Subject
Collection of Humorous English Essays
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Abstract
n this mouth-watering collection of witty, topical and common-sense essays, award-winning critic John Allemang brings us back to a basic but often forgotten truth about food: it's one of life's most elemental and reliable pleasures.
Allemang pairs each essay with easy, timeless (and occasionally eccentric) recipes from his own kitchen. They include dark mushroom risotto, ripe peach crisp, chicken with mustard and nuts, the ultimate mussels in wine, the redoubtable head cheese, and an Indian sweet he calls carrot fudge.
In his prose as much as his cooking, Allemang takes aim at our tendency to make food a burden, whether by treating it as a form of ostentation or as an occasion for guilt. In his life, and in this book, food is a joy.
Allemang pairs each essay with easy, timeless (and occasionally eccentric) recipes from his own kitchen. They include dark mushroom risotto, ripe peach crisp, chicken with mustard and nuts, the ultimate mussels in wine, the redoubtable head cheese, and an Indian sweet he calls carrot fudge.
In his prose as much as his cooking, Allemang takes aim at our tendency to make food a burden, whether by treating it as a form of ostentation or as an occasion for guilt. In his life, and in this book, food is a joy.
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